Connecting with Devils Club | Herbal Jedi

✨Um-hum hu-hu-um, Um-hum hu-hum✨
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Journey with me to meet Devils Club (Oplopanax horridus).
A powerful and protective west coast plant that contains much valuable chemistry and spiritual potency.
Honoured and revered by many of the indigenous coastal tribes, this plant has much to share as medicine for the mind body and soul.
It is important to treat Devils Club with respect, just spending time with it and developing a plant spirit connection is the best way to start working with this plant. Over harvesting can be an issue as it can take a long time to recover. So if you plan to use this plant internally, be sure to only take what you need and offer something in exchange.
Herbal Blessings,
~Y

Also Check out this Video with Yarrows father, Dr. Terry Willard on Devils Club:

Devils Club (Oplopanax Horridus) is one of the west coast elders of the forest. A member of the Ginseng family this plant is considered a powerful ally in the shamanic traditions of the coastal Salish cultures. It is steeped in a rich history of ritual use for protection, potency and vision questing.
Herbalists regard it as an "adaptogen" using it with hypoglycaemia, diabetes, stress management, rheumatism, respiratory ailments and more.
Those that spend time in the west coast forests learn to respect this plant as after the first encounter with its spines it is clear that devils clubs armour is not just for show.
The ecosystems it grows in are sensitive and one should be aware NOT to over harvest. This plant though does have the ability to re-grow from the stems of its fallen warriors, and so done ethically harvesting can be sustainable.
Best to harvest in the spring after the ground thaws and leaves are full and open, or in the fall after the fruit has finished and before the frost. Many traditions believe that the spirit shifts after the frost and it should not be picked at this time. The Root Bark should be peeled and prepped for drying or tincturing with in 48 hours of harvest.
Beads can be easily made with the root stock, as the centre is pithy and easily removable (Check out the ones Yarrow is wearing in this video.)
If you find yourself around this plant. Sit with it a while, listen to its songs, and offer your respect, for Oplopanax has many gifts to offer its students and allies.

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[valeriemcnutt-messier]

I love devils club! I have a jar of the green inner bark from the root. I open it up and breathe deeply! Oh how I love the scent. I have walking sticks, pipes I hollowed out the pity. I have beads too ! There are huge patches on the mt. Up my road. I live on the Olympic Peninsula. I love your videos ill probably watch them all.

[reneehunter]

So much of what I learned from my Grandma comes back to me watching you, listening to you. So much so that I've decided to pursue Herbs! I'd love to visit when I go a-roaming next year, I was very much impressed with the garden.

[rec]

my Grandmother was a medicine women, you brought back good memories of her, I will go sit and visit with devils club, and give thanks, thank you for the reminder medicine man.

[garrettchristman]

Continue to spread your knowledge, you truly are a blessing. Peace and love.

[Herbal_Jedi]

✨Learn, Share and Connect✨
With this Plant of Protection and Spiritual Potency
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Join Herbal Jedi Yarrow Willard as he takes us on a journey to meet one of his most potent plant allies, Devils Club (Oplopanax horridus).

[marcellawynja]

when we harvest the plant we us thick gloves and scrapee off the thorns. No need to injury your hands.We take off thorns right where we harvest. I am 81 years old and just learning how our medicine is made and enjoy this so much. Never to old to learn. I prefer using our own pain medication for arthiritis and sore muscles. Love your show, you show so much respect for the forest.My favorite are the trees and plants so much medicine they provide Did not know we could use the roots, thank you for information.

[angelasantiago]

As a person of shinnecock ancestry I love that you show mother earth respect when harvesting and using the plants medicine thank you for sharing your knowledge humans have become so detached from nature and need to get back to reconnecting with the earth for our survival the man made stuff is damaging us and the planet

[corax]

You must be in the Pacific NW. I grew up in SE Alaska ... covered with devil's club. I was saved by devil's club ... fell out of a tree and my fall was broken by a thick patch of devil's club... I stuck on it like Velcro.😮🙂

[caydancebloom]

thank you for teaching me about Devil's Club. I've been learning about it today because I harvested some from my sister's property and I'm trying to decide the ways I will be processing it. I didn't get any roots... still figuring out the property and I don't want to disturb things unnecessarily. Super excited I have this treasure!

[pineapplejones]

we need a larger community of truth speakers to help guide those who can't learn first hand what they should and shouldn't put in their body
im drinking fresh root bark tea right now, with tons of stinging nettle and chug and wild reships, wish I had some reishi to throw in the mix. seriously people, try some of this stuff out, and I swear you will feel good. it alleviates anxiety and stress and makes all the bad things feel good, and makes you feel earthy and almost in touch with that primordial realm that the mycelium and all life comes from. This isn't just sentimental whimsical talk, im saying these plants are really potent and life changing and won't usually impair you from driving a car, but it might make you decide to walk barefoot through the grass instead of driving.

[pineapplejones]

the 21 people who thumbed down this video thought 'Herbal Jedi' was a dj dropping some heavy beats at the Devils Club

[wealthygirl]

Thank you for your wisdom and love to bring us this amazing knowledge! Sending you unending blessings of love and infinite abundance...🤗🤗🤗😍😍😍😘😘😘🥰🥰🥰🖖🏻

[JustinQuilling]

One summer climbed up and through a giant wall of Devils Club on Baranoff Island, Alaska. All the plants were taller than me and very spiky. I took it slow and could gently push the stalks away from my face with the forearms of my jacket. After picking huckleberries and suddenly finding a fresh steaming brown bear "cowpie" with whole huckleberries still inside, I ran back very quickly down through the plants to my skiff and was fortunate they didn't really hurt me.

[kaimoss]

Beautiful <3 Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and reverence for this sacred teacher plant

[lisakimbrell]

Thank u for the all plant info you guess i haven't watched enough of them to realize...I see on this video...

[Meymeygwis]

Devils Club...truly a great Ally! Thank you!

[BORNSTUBBORN]

I've been watching a bunch of your videos now. I'm so intrigued and hooked on wanting to learn more. Thank you.

[AurelienCarnoy]

😙😘 much love to you and your family. You are doing great work. Thank you for sharing how the devil s club make you feel. Meeting with the creator.

[improv]

Love your work and your deep reverence and connection, brother. 😁 Thank you for sharing so much info and light. 💛🌿

Hugs from Perú. ☆

[lalaleaf]

Thank you for the information. I am heading to a spot where i saw some. I will give something back when i harvest.